#oh shit its my OTP

[unfortunatelyilikebnha]

The best tdmd moments/things (to me; vaguely but not entirely chronological) (also I haven’t read the manga in ages and I’ve only - recently at least - rewatched bits and pieces so some of this is paraphrased while some of it I went back through to get exact quotes and NO I’m not going to do that for all of them it would take too long) (readmore bc it’s a lot):

- “As the crowd shouted, trying to make Sero feel better, Todoroki took a moment to melt his opponent from the ice prison he’d created. For some reason, in that moment, he looked very sad to me.” Ok so this is not the sports festival moment everyone talks about but it LIVES in my head ABSOLUTELY RENT FREE. It’s like, we know Todoroki’s been watching Midoriya for a while, mostly due to his obvious connection with All Might, but in this moment, while everyone is focusing on Sero, Midoriya is Watching Todoroki Back. He Sees Him.

- MIDORIYA TELLING ENDEAVOR THAT HE IS NOT ALL MIGHT AND SHOUTO IS NOT HIM. Midoriya is freeeeeaked tf out bc endvr is intimidating + he’s worried he’ll discover the secret of OFA but the SECOND endvr starts talking like an asshole, Midoriya SHUTS THAT SHIT DOWN. Again, Midoriya has had like ONE conversation with Todoroki and actively Really Wants To Get Away From Endeavor, but he just gets so mad about the way that Endeavor’s talking that he pauses his retreat to correct him and I think that’s beautiful.

- One of Todoroki’s episodes/chapters being titled “The boy born with everything” and how you could easily contrast Midoriya as “The boy born with nothing” (I could not find a definitive answer on whether canon actually calls him that but like). The juxtaposition of their opposite struggles and the underlying understanding that underneath it all they are really not that different. That they have both suffered, and are both trying to make the most of a power with a difficult legacy. (This brings me to the next point because -)

- “It’s your power, isn’t it?”/“It’s yours! Your quirk, not his!” Yeah. I don’t even have to explain this one I think, everyone knows it’s THE tddk moment. I’ll forever die on the hill that Todoroki should’ve found out about OFA sooner and we should’ve had a direct reversal while Midoriya was still struggling with thinking of OFA as his quirk instead of All Might’s and Todoroki repeats Midoriya’s words right back at him. I mean, Horikoshi LOVES to do that (see: repetition of “body moved without thinking”, “meddling when you aren’t asked to is the essence of being a hero”, “that’s what friends are for, right?” etc) the setup was RIGHT THERE, like taking my shipping goggles or whatever off for a second I think it would’ve been a great addition to the story regardless bc it’s an example of how Midoriya has helped other people AND a reminder that he has not quite conceptualized the advice he gives others for himself! Even without that though, we see how important this moment was to Todoroki literally throughout the rest of his arc, to the point that

- “Midoriya, this is my power. Thank you.” IF WE DIDNT GET TDRK TELLING MDYA THAT OFA WAS HIS QUIRK, AT LEAST WE GOT THIS. MY GOD. I was trying to go mostly chronologically, but since we’re talking about a follow-up to “It’s your power, isn’t it?” I HAD to mention this scene next. It’s a really lovely moment because 1) it’s an acknowledgement of how much Todoroki’s grown (which he did on his own! Midoriya reminded him of why he wanted to become a hero in the first place, and he had a lot of support from friends (& teachers/family) but TODOROKI decided to put in the work to become the kind of hero he wanted to be!) and 2) it’s a reminder to Midoriya that he has made a positive impact and helped the people around him, which I think he’s probably struggling with since this is like. Soon after his dropout arc iirc. (Also: it’s a cool new super move that Todoroki developed himself to try to create a better future for his family!! Which, setting aside how beautiful it is that Todoroki has crafted his fire into something that won’t hurt, is also fun bc Midoriya loves quirks and gets to nerd out over Todoroki’s cool new move lol)

- TODOROKI SHOWING UP TO THE STAIN FIGHT. Todoroki has been friends with Midoriya for like a week and gets a location pin with no other context and IMMEDIATELY deduces that 1) Midoriya’s not the kind of guy to randomly drop his location so 2) he must be in danger, and 3) IMMEDIATELY TELLS ENDEAVOR HE’S GOING TO CHECK OUT THE LOCATION AND TO BRING BACKUP TO THERE AFTER HE’S DONE FIGHTING BC HE THINKS HIS FRIEND’S IN TROUBLE. When he actually shows up the first thing he says is something like “Midoriya you should include more details at a time like this. It took me a while to figure out what you meant and I could’ve been too late” but we literally see in the flashback that he figured this all out in like 2 seconds and IMMEDIATELY came to support Midoriya AND SECURED BACKUP. Every person in Midoriya’s phone received the location pin and expressed various levels of curiosity/concern about it in hindsight but Todoroki figured it out right away and immediately came to help (this isn’t a knock on the rest of 1a btw iirc the rest of them weren’t even in Hosu so there’s not anything they really could’ve done about it besides report it - which iirc Kirishima did -, it’s just that Todoroki WAS in Hosu and DID figure it out so he immediately went to help and it was that simple for him). Todoroki also just like. Instantly accepts that ok, Midoriya and Iida were fighting a serial killer, Guess He’s Also Fighting A Serial Killer Now. ALL THIS FOR HIS FRIEND OF A WEEK. This is one of the core tenets of tddkism to me: they are as ride-or-die as they come. Also notable: Midoriya is not generally in the habit of asking for help. The fact that he did, knowing nothing might come of it, AND TODOROKI SHOWED UP EXACTLY WHEN HE NEEDED HIM??? Can we acknowledge how much that probably meant to Midoriya. Also the start of tdiimd as a trio, which this post isn’t really about, but I can’t completely leave Iida out when talking abt the stain fight that’d be fucked up :(

- “We’ll protect them together”. Yes ik, another Stain fight moment, but I believe this line deserves its own point because, again, Todoroki has been Midoriya’s friend for like a week. Immediately prior to Todoroki saying this, he tells Midoriya that his plan is risky. It’s one thing to recognize Midoriya’s text as a call for help and run to be his backup, it’s another thing to let Midoriya take the strategic lead when he’s already injured and the plan itself could be dangerous. But Todoroki puts his trust in Midoriya and says they’ll protect them together, showing his confidence in Midoriya’s strategic prowess AND battle planning ability.

- “You’re a kind person, Todoroki”. Ok I’ll get this out of the way: I have issues with how the writing of this chapter could be read as implying that being a kind person automatically means you have to forgive the person who hurt you. Ik Midoriya tells Todoroki that it’s ok not to forgive Endvr if he doesn’t want to, but the way he follows it up with the fact that he’s a kind person and the assumption that he wants to forgive Endvr...aren’t my favorite. I think it kind of makes sense for Midoriya to think like this given his own experiences (and also. Midoriya is 15, some of his wording is gonna be a little bit awkward sometimes, so I don’t think that’s the only possible interpretation of what he said), but I wish that if that was the intention, there’d be a moment later on where this view was challenged and Midoriya really internalized that you can be kind and still not forgive someone who’s hurt you. THAT BEING SAID, of all the things that Todoroki is called on a regular basis, and of all the qualities Todoroki associates with himself, I don’t think “kind” is necessarily one of them. “Kindness” was not exactly a virtue that Endeavor seemed to prioritize instilling in him (and though Rei probably would’ve, she WAS absent for much of Shouto’s childhood), and he spent so much time building his walls and striving to defy his dad that it’s not something people tend to immediately pinpoint about him. Todoroki really IS kind though, and Midoriya recognizes that AND makes it a point to tell him. For Todoroki, who has worked on himself quite a lot, and just invited friends to his house probably for the first time ever + gone through a tense family dinner in front of them, I think that probably meant a lot (and his expression in that panel is so cute. Ough).

- “Thank you for being Shouto’s friend”. I think the fact that Fuyumi recognized how meaningful their friendship was and thanked Izuku for it was so significant for both of them, like neither of them, as far as we know, HAD a lot of friends prior to attending UA so the acknowledgement that it is a big deal that they befriended each other is special <3

- Tdrk catching Mdya (and bkg and endvr but this ain’t about them) during the first war arc. He doesn’t know shit about OFA at this point but he followed Midoriya to the front lines anyways.

- Todoroki tucking Midoriya in in 327 and putting a hand on his shoulder in 32…8? 9? Fuck if I know I haven’t read the manga in ages. Anyways. These are both tiny moments but I’m grouping them together bc they really show how Todoroki is there for Midoriya, in the way that he’s always noticing things about him, that he’s RELIABLE, he WANTS to be there for Midoriya like Midoriya was there for Todoroki and that manifests both in following him into terrifying fights and in the small gestures of support. Todoroki NOTICES when something’s wrong, and when he has the necessary context he steps up to help.

Bonus mentions:

- the “are you all might’s secret love child or something?” convo in its entirety. Between the Todoroki Family Trauma Dump, Midoriya sympathizing with Todoroki and realizing that despite how different their lives have been, they’re very similar, the beginning of Midoriya’s desire to help Todoroki, and the beginning of Midoriya really Seeing Todoroki, it sets the groundwork for the start of something beautiful

- AFO: “pay close attention to them, tomura shigaraki. These two could prove to be formidable obstacles to you one day”. / AM: “they may have more in common than they realize. They both have such an intense vibe about them.” The fact that both AFO and AM comment on the tdmd sports festival match leads me to believe that originally their relationship (in the original story I’m talking about the platonic sense but read this any way you will since. This IS a post abt why I ship them) was supposed to be more central to the plot, in this essay I will - (<- ramblings of a crazy person but like!!! Both AM and AFO!! And you’re telling me it didn’t mean anything??? Come on!!)

- Also “you’re helping your opponent. You’re a fool.” Their matching maniacal grins after Midoriya prompts Todoroki to use his fire. Todoroki’s softer smile and little tear. Mdya’s “Amazing…”. Them immediately deciding to go full force regardless if it kills them (IMPORTANT FACT ABOUT THEM IS THAT THEY’RE INSANE <3). “Midoriya…thank you.” (OUGHHHHHHHHH 😭😭😭)

- MDYA YELLING “DONT GIVE UP” DURING THE TDRK/BKG MATCH AND FOR A BRIEF MOMENT TODOROKI STARTS USING HIS FIRE AGAIN. Ik he ultimately doesn’t end up using his fire, but that makes SENSE, you can’t process all that trauma immediately, it takes time!! The fact that for a moment, Midoriya’s voice was enough to allow him to use his fire so soon after his life-altering revelation in the tdmd match is so important to me though :( (and the fact that Midoriya’s willing to 1) root for Todoroki and 2) root for him loud enough that both Todoroki and Bkg can hear,,, ohh tdmd are so special to me)

- their little convo at the training camp. “You have a habit of sticking your nose where it doesn’t belong” lol (paraphrased). Underrated tdmd thing is that they’re willing to tell it to each other straight. But also, the genuinely good advice of “words themselves aren’t enough, actions are also needed to get through to someone” (again, paraphrased) (reminder of how Mdya helped Tdrk!! W/ words AND actions!! And now he’s helping Mdya help Kota!)

- “I don’t know, I think heroes cry when they need to probably” - acknowledges Mdya’s crying as a positive trait bc when he’s not crying it means he’s repressing things, also serves as a reminder that heroes are people too (a similar sentiment to Uraraka’s “who will save the heroes when they need saving?”). Serves to remind Mdya that his crying doesn’t make him less of a hero + it’s ok to feel things. Also Tdiimd.

- “You can’t even cry”/“Let us share that burden together” (this is like. Veeeery paraphrased I’m sorry I don’t have access to the chapter and I’m too lazy to rewatch). The whole class said very meaningful things to try to get Midoriya to come back, but even though he wasn’t ultimately the one to fully get through to him (SHOUTOUT TO IIDA ILY IIDA THIS POST ISNT ABOUT HIM EITHER BUT JUST KNOW I CANT WATCH THAT SCENE WITHOUT TEARING UP THEY R SO DEAR TO ME) Todoroki’s is one of my favorites bc sure maybe he doesn’t understand what it’s like to have no quirk and then suddenly have a quirk that’s actually seven quirks and have a pretty much all-powerful supervillain hunting him down but he DOES understand the burden of trying to shoulder the crushing legacy of a top hero, and here he reaches out to Midoriya once more reminding him that his tears are a good thing and offering to share the burden and help Midoriya like Midoriya’s helped him.

- Light novel moments: Mdya teaching Tdrk how to make AM origami and Tdrk sending it to Rei, Tdrk going to return Mdyas pencil and admiring Mdyas AM figure and Mdya trying to give it to him bc he has another one but Tdrk refuses bc he doesn’t want to damage it so he suggests he just come visit it instead (I haven’t read the light novels but I’ve seen these excerpts and I love them dearly) (these are just all really cute it’s nice to see what they’re like outside of doing hero stuff)

- Todoroki’s “Midoriya Sense” (yes this is a fandom joke based on like the stain incident + noticing smth was up during the “heroes cry too” incident + Todoroki asking abt him before the cultural festival etc but it IS genuinely very sweet that Todoroki is always looking out for Midoriya and trying his best to help when he can)

- TODOROKI TELLING MIDORIYA TO REMOVE THE BATTERIES FROM HIS PHONE SO THE GOVERNMENT COULDNT TRACK HIM WHILE HE WAS ON THE RUN BC HE WAS A MURDER SUSPECT. Now I haven’t watched the third movie so I may be wrong about the details but it was VERY funny of Tdrk to be like “did you kill people??? Never mind that actually here’s how to avoid the government” (paraphrased for comedic effect)

-“Midoriya and the others” (cute, something Shouto says…several times lmao) (Izuku has also said “Todoroki and the others” at least once (in the first movie) but I’m not aware of it being a recurring phrase like “Midoriya and the others”)

[leviiackrman]

"Due to foreseen circumstances well within my control, I will be late"

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[aroace-polyshow]

it is such an experience watching tawog as a kid and seeing that one episode with the ice cream cone girl writing fic abt all the other characters not thinking too hard about it. and then watching my sister watch that clip and recognizing everything the girl is saying. like oh my fucking god i get her now i literally became her what the fuckkkkk

[whollyjoly]

crying screaming throwing up yeet me into the fucking SUN as you take a blender to my balls i cant fucking believe it holy SHIT

*coughs into mic* anyways so here's how bucktommy can still win....

[thechildofshadows]

A DAY FOR LOVE

Avery Grambs/Jameson Hawthorne - 2k

Alright!!! This is my sad, sad attempt at fluff, and I also haven't written since like June, so I've had about half a year to lose my writing skills to the mess that is social media. This fic happens between The Hawthorne Legacy and the Final Gambit. When we first see our OTP, they've just told the world that they're dating, and they're preparing for a charity gala. (anyone can read- I rated this General Audiences on Ao3) have fun!

T-MINUS FOUR HOURS (BEFORE THE GALA)

“You’re nervous.” The statement came from Jameson, who saw right through her rapid finger-tapping as more than just an outlet for boredom.

Out of all of the things Avery needed to do that day, filling out forms seemed like the least stressful- and yet, it didn’t seem to curb her anxiety.

She looked up from her desk, and watched Jameson lean his back against the doorframe, putting her in the center of his field of vision.

“Of course I’m nervous! The Hawthorne Foundation Gala is today, and for some reason I’m doing taxes-“

“-and for your pain and suffering, you deserve at least a year’s worth of chocolate donuts!” Xander burst into the room, bearing said chocolate donuts and nearly knocking over Jameson. He tossed his brother a donut before taking a better look at Avery. “I fear you may require a stronger source of sugar with the amount of stress coming from you.” he placed the donuts on her desk.

When Avery didn’t take a donut, he raised an eyebrow. “Does this have nothing to do with taxes and everything to do with an upcoming press release involving the two of you?”

Avery looked at him, seeming close to panic, and both of Xander’s eyebrows went up. “I will take that as a yes, leave this room, and strongly recommend you lovebirds speak to each other.”

Jameson left the door and stood against her desk, facing away. “Do you regret this, Heiress?”

Avery stood and braced herself on the desk. “Of course not. You know that, I know that, but does everyone else know?”

Jameson looked at her. “We’re doing this so that everyone knows. I don’t know if they’ll believe us, but they’ll be informed.”

Avery turned around, and leaned against Jameson. “They’re never going to believe or accept it. This community is weird, Jameson. They hate me enough as is, they’re never going to accept us together.”

Jameson raised an amused eyebrow. “Is that what you think?”

“What?”

“Look, you gave Alisa the picture and the caption yesterday. She posted it about two minutes ago-“

“-when the donuts came?” Avery’s shock was mixed with anger and relief and it caused Jameson to give her a small smirk.

“-yes, when the donuts came. I think you’re prepared for the worst, Heiress, but maybe not as prepared for the reception we’re truly receiving.” He handed her her phone.

Avery rapidly opened up Instagram and found her phone filled with notifications. She checked her latest post and found a picture of herself and Jameson covered in paint, from the day the two had built and painted her desk. In the photo, she gave Jameson a kiss on the cheek and it was captioned ‘first love ❤️❤️’.

It had over a million likes.

“Wait, a million?” Jameson leaned over her shoulder to look at her phone. It felt oddly domestic and she embraced the feeling. “Alisa said it had 10,000. It’s been less than five minutes, how is the app still running?”

Avery shrugged, a smile finding its way onto her lips. She opened up the comment section.

angel_face222 THEYRE SO CUTE

SONICSCREAMS people date this guy?

reply from lia-eliza dude imagine the kids 😍😍

HOT_TO_GO OPPOSITES ATTRACT CONFIRMED?????

      reply from SONICSCREAMS didn't she date his brother 😭 like that one interview

laffytaffyhappy does this mean he’ll stop being all law-breaky or will she start doing illegal shit.

my-name-is-slim-shaky wait, I lwk never imagined this, but they work so well together, it's my new OTP

theCALENDARRR oh to be young and in love.

      reply from I_is_calculator you're like 16

      reply from theCALENDARR shut up Jessica

      reply from I_is_calculator my name is Elena 😭

Jameson stopped her from scrolling further. "Look, the reception isn't all going to be puppies and chocolate donuts. But I think you're doing pretty good if Instagram thinks it’s not propaganda.”

"Jameson, that was five people out of-" she checked the phone again. "nine thousand comments."

Jameson shrugged. "I highly doubt they're the only five positive ones, Heiress, you would've had a harder time finding it otherwise."

Alisa, who Avery hadn't seen since that morning, walked into the room holding a large garment bag, followed by a makeup artist. "Congratulations, Avery. That's one of the most positively recieved posts I've ever seen on your account."

Jameson raised an eyebrow at Avery, giving her a look that said I told you so, and Avery let go of a breath she didn't even know she had been holding. "You're not joking?"

"Have you ever known Alisa to joke?" Alisa glared at Jameson, who punctuated the statement with a smirk.

Alisa turned to Avery. "About 95% of the general public reacted well, and out of that 5% that didn't, most were teenage girls."

Avery sighed. "As expected."

With the problem mostly settled, Alisa clapped her hands. "Okay, then, onto the rest of our duties. Avery, you have a gala in about four hours. Jameson, get out."

Jameson opened his mouth to protest and then decided against it, for he closed his mouth and dropped a kiss on the top of Avery's head before leaving.

Avery turned to Alisa. "You didn't have to kick him out."

Alisa closed the door behind Jameson, before ushering Avery to the bathroom. "Once you figure out how to get your makeup on while holding a conversation with him, he'll be allowed to stay. We need you both there on time, and you take significantly longer to get ready than he does."

T-MINUS ONE HOUR (Before the gala)

Jameson wasn’t exactly one to panic, but neither was Avery. He began tapping his foot and took a deep breath in an attempt to calm down.

Alisa had left him a selection of four ties and matching pocket squares, and Jameson assumed he was supposed to wear them with a tuxedo. He pulled out the garment bag containing the black one, and began slowly buttoning his shirt.

The sounds of Hakuna Matata filled the room while he tucked his shirt in, and Jameson sighed before picking up his phone. Xander had set his ringtone over two weeks ago; Jameson hadn't gotten around to hacking it yet.

"How are ya doin', Jamie?"

"You live three doors down, why don't you tell me?" he hung up the call.

Not two seconds later, Nash strolled into his room, wearing flannel over jeans and a band t-shirt.

"You look like a waiter. Didn’t Grayson ever teach you to dress yourself?” he took a look toward the rest of the clothing Jameson had set out to wear.

Jameson ran a hand through his hair. “I look the same. I wore this last week.” 

“And then someone asked you for champagne. And you socked them in the face.”

He then proceeded to walk into Jameson's closet -"There’s nothing wrong with what I'm wearing!" "People are gonna ask you for more caviar; Grayson told me to not let you leave the house like that."- and after rummaging for two minutes, found a waistcoat that he didn't even know existed. It was the exact color of the tie Jameson wanted to pick, but Nash procured a black tie and pocket square.

"I think this is the same color as her dress, but honestly, it's gonna be dark, who's gonna see?" Nash held up the waistcoat, as if the nonexistant light would help him see better. 

Jameson took it from him. "Have I ever worn this?"

"Maybe. You were also drinking a lot, so I doubt you or the news remembers." Nash sniffed the cloth. "You would never even know. It doesn't even smell like bourbon."

Jameson raised an unimpressed eyebrow as he began to put his tie on.. “Don’t tell me you’re being serious.”

Nash crossed his arms and leaned against the wall. “I couldn’t tell you whether it was true or not, Jamie, you wouldn’t believe me no matter what I said.”

Jameson buttoned up his waistcoat. “A wise man takes all truths with a grain of salt.” 

“Bullshit.” Nash drew out the first syllable.

Jameson gave his brother a smirk. “Don’t you know it.” He grabbed the suit jacket and left.

1.5 HOURS IN

“Oh hello dear!” The sound of posh over-confidence crept up behind Avery, who quickly turned.

“Mrs. Anderson!” The woman was one of the slightly pushy heads of a charity created to support budding culinary minds. While incredibly specific, the charity had sent over a thousand students to culinary school, who went on to open restaurants that were all doing pretty well. Avery didn’t mind the woman; she was a lot nicer than most of the attendees, and used her reach to benefit the people who needed it. “How are you, ma’am?”

“I’m doing great, darling, but we need to talk about that dress. You look stunning!”

Avery was draped in dark red silk, covering one arm, and hugging her body until it hit her hips, where it flowed in waves, just shy of reaching the ground. The asymmetrical neckline and bottom of the skirt were covered in minimal silver embroidery-visible when the light hit just so. Alisa had shoved her in a pair of black stilettos, and curled her hair, painting her lips with the same red as her dress. A silver choker was clasped around her throat, matching her earrings and the bracelets on her left hand.

She thanked the woman, handing her a glass of champagne, and asked, “Have you heard about the charity we’re sponsoring today?”

Avery and the woman chatted for a couple of minutes as Avery convinced her to donate thousands of dollars out of pocket.

“Cancer truly is a scary thing.” Mrs. Anderson smiled softly. “I lost my husband to lung cancer. I doubt the majority of these people consider the research worth funding.”

“They think they’re untouchable.” Avery said.

“Precisely, my dear.” The woman grabbed another glass of champagne before looking behind Avery. “Oh, I must add, you and Jameson Hawthorne are a beautiful couple.”

Avery felt her cheeks heat and she looked down, but Mrs. Anderson hadn’t finished. “The amount of love you two have for each other is simply incredible. Just being in the same room as you two makes me feel like an outsider; your bond is so sweet.”

Avery paused. Same room? She turned and saw an incredibly familiar face.

Jameson Hawthorne had finally showed up. He wore a dark grey suit-so dark it was nearly black, with a waistcoat the color of wine and silver chains. His tie matched his suit jacket and his hair was artfully arranged, neat with enough personality such that he still looked like himself.

Mrs. Anderson gave Avery a soft smile. “You two look at each other like a man seeing the stars for the first time in years. If this isn’t true love, I don’t know what is!”

Avery’s lips parted. “Really?”

“Oh trust me darling, you and Jameson are something that happens once in a lifetime.” The woman winked and walked away, exchanging greetings with Jameson, who was headed Avery’s way.

She motioned towards the side of the room, and he showed up a minute later with two wineglasses.

She leaned on a pillar and he stood her to her. “You look beautiful, Heiress.” Jameson handed her the wineglass as he said the statement.

Avery smiled. “And yet, you still upstage me by millions. How has this gala gone so far?”

Jameson grimaced and drained the wineglass like a shot. “All people want to talk about is the fact that I’m ‘off the market and it’s such a shame and won’t I please put in a good word for Grayson’ - if I hear another woman tell me any of that, I’m going through the old man’s whiskey stash.”

Avery suppressed a smile and switched their glasses. She doubted she would drink the wine, and Jameson seemed like he needed it more than she did. Jameson wasn’t usually this open, and she wondered if the wine wasn’t his first drink of the night. “You seem like you’ve had fun.”

Jameson shot her a smirk. “And you should be prepared for more, Heiress,” he clinked his glass against hers, “because I believe the slow dances just started.”

For the few hours, Jameson and Avery alternated between spinning around the dance floor and resting at the bar. Their routine was occasionally interrupted by a speech, a person or both, but by the end of the night, they had raised over a million dollars to charity. The venue closed, but they stayed for an additional thirty minutes to supervise cleanup.

  It took about forty minutes to get back to Hawthorne House and once they made it to Avery’s room, she tossed her heels into her closet and sat on the nearest chair.

Avery sighed. “I am never doing this again.” She stood up and began removing her jewelry, shedding her media persona for the sake of comfort.

Jameson unzipped her dress. “I highly doubt that.”

Avery shot him a look and she had to stifle a laugh when he mirrored it.

Once they were both changed and under the covers, Avery turned to Jameson and propped her head on a hand. “Do you know what day it is?”

Jameson’s eyes glittered and Avery knew he knew the answer. “The fourteenth?”

Avery rolled her eyes. “Valentine’s Day.”

Jameson smirked. “An astute observation, Heiress. And while one AM is a perfectly reasonable time to exchange gifts and other things, I don’t think you want to leave this bed right now.”

Avery nodded. “Definitely not.”

“Then Happy Valentine’s Day, Heiress, and I’ll see you when we inevitably wake up in six hours.”

Avery laughed and pulled him in for a kiss. When they broke apart, she whispered, “Happy Valentine’s Day, Jameson.”

And if she woke up the next day with several news articles focusing on the gala (or rather its hosts), well, she was going to ignore it all and spend the entire day with her amazing boyfriend.

fin.

Alright- 2.5 thousand words later, I wish you a happy Valentine’s Day!

(or just a happy Friday if you don’t have plans like me 😄)

(dividers are from @/cafekitsune)

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expect another fic in 1-2 weeks, more likely 2 than one.

[windybluebelles]

One part of me is sad that none of my friends are really into DC

Another part of me is so glad that I don’t have to explain that, out of the hundreds of BatMan ships, I chose BatArrow as my OTP.

Do you know how fucking embarrassing that is?

“Oh I like BatCat- I like BruTalia- I like SuperBat- MuMeMuuuu- hey Bluebelle, what’s your favourite Batman ship?-“

AND ITS A FUCKING KNOCK OFF ROBIN HOOD SON OF A BITCH

It’s one thing for that to be public information on the internet that only strangers (and my Sonic Hyperfixated girlfriend ig) can judge me for, it’s an entirely different thing to say that to an actual comic book fan.

I’d get laughed out of the losers club and chucked into the bin.

Gets even worse when I have to be like-

“👉👈🥺 imagine if he was dating Dinah toooo, and they all loved eachother and shit”

Like ew

[zuzuelectricbugaloo]

Tête-à-Tête: Trois

Rating: Teen

Synopsis: Epic takes his shot. Nightmare underestimates his depravity.

CW: Epic temporarily dies and returns to life. Its played for comedic purposes by both Epic and the narrative, but understandably is unenjoyable

Word Count: 2, 108

Part 1, 2, 3 of A Guardian, A Scientist, and A Parlay

“First up, Cross ain’t nearly as verbose as you, for realzies.” Epic remarked. He leaned himself against the chair with his arms crossed behind his head.

Nightmare blinked. “Realzies?” 

“F’r real f’r real. Ya vibe check?” He gave a thumbs down and blew a raspberry. “Failed. An’ usin’ dat boomer ta get to me? His vibes’re straight up rancid, spittin’ straight facts wi’ dat, not gonna lie, but yo. You’re throwin’ all dat shade at me like I ain’t already drownin’ on my own.” 

Nightmare was stunned. “Is…is this a mental breakdown? A crisis of some kind?” Bewildered, he wondered, “What are you saying?”

“Just dat we could be real sigma skibidi slicers but ya got all da Ohio and none o’da rizzler.

“Is this a stroke? Can your kind have strokes?”

“I’m sayin’ what I’m sayin’, ya dig?”

“Saying what?”

Epic’s eyes crinkled into upturned crescents. “Sayin’ like a straight up Saiyan lmao.”

Nightmare’s eye twitched. “You’re saying what?!”

“Naaaah, I ain’t Saiyan, bruh! I’m jus’ sayin’ what I’m sayin’.”

Before Nightmare could give in to the urge and leap across the table to strangle him with his bare hands, Epic inquired, “Whatcha reading?”

It’s random enough that it throws the guardian off kilter and he answers honestly, “The Picture of Dorian Gray.” 

“Aw sheeet, really?” Epic whistled lowly, impressed. “Dat one’s wild. Mah best bruh wuz so uptst bowt Basil, brah, an’ I’m wit’ him mahn. If it weren’t foh dat one bastard, Dorian an’ Basil would’ve behn OTP an’ everiethin wud be sunshine an’ rainbuws.”

“If you wish for this game to be played well, lest at all,” Nightmare spat irritably, “Then use that silver tongue well instead of spouting rot like an illiterate.”

“Hmm, ya got me.” Epic waved his gloved hands in a mimicry of jazz. “But foh one as well-versed as u, sureleh u can rerd betwehn teh lines?”

Nightmare huffed. “Ah yes,” he rolled his eye, “asinine nonsense is so worth the effort of parceling though. Last warning.” 

His tendrils sharpened, razor-edged tints gleaming menacingly within the tarred corruption, “Speak proper or invoke your own pain.”

“Aw,” Epic pouted. “An’ I was jus’ ‘bout to tell ya about the Sigma of the Ohio, gooning to the gyat—” 

SHINK!

“Oh would ya look at dat.” Epic said cheerfully. “I’ve been impaled.”

Epic hummed. Idly poking the tendril jutting out of him, he scrubbed the viscous tar that clung to the edge of his distals and curiously brought it to his mouth. Nightmare’s narrowed eye widened, gaping as he watched in dumbfounded silence as Epic licked his mouth in quick, kittenish blips whilst cleaning the distal phalanx of the corruption coating it with his tongue. 

“Huh. Tastes like bitter apple tart.” He mused. 

Nightmare’s mouth opened and closed. Epic was blathering something about “bridges” and desiring more “polin” moments within adapted screenplay, but any comprehension of his commentary was lost in the storm of the supposed guardian’s tumultuous thoughts. 

Such strange, utterly perplexing behavior. To what purpose? To what end? Didn’t the novels purport that tasting another was a means of enticement? Erego, was this…flirting? 

Was seduction this truly beguiling bastard’s method of further confoundment? 

“I’m not interested!” He snapped. It was most certainly not an undignified squawk! 

“Huh?” Epic slow-blinked in confusion. “What — oh. Oh. Oh, honey,” Epic guffawed. “You’re so not my type.” 

“Excuse you?!”

“You’re excused babes.” 

SHINK! 

Epic’s impudence earned him another impalement of the tentacle persuasion, yet his shit-eating grin remained, entirely unfazed by the two razored tendrils protruding from his abdomen and the fuchsia blood that dripped out the corners of his mouth. 

“I like ‘em cuter than you,” Epic simpered. “And a lot more fun ta hang wit’.” 

Nightmare sneered, unimpressed. “What, like Ccino?”

The skeleton hummed in contemplation. “Waz thinkin’ ‘bout someone else, but Bunbun is mad cute tbh. Mehbe a coffee date or two, if Ccino was down, he’s such a snacc dat he ate and left no crumbs. Did ya see those bunny ears on his hoodie? Ugh, totes adorbs. Ngl I just wanna squish dem kawaii cheeks on dat cute face an’ nomnomnom. Prolly tastes like mochi.”

Nightmare’s eye twitched. He wondered if corrupted pseudo skeleton pyro-elemental demigods could have aneurysms.

And promptly mulled after that over his inaugural desire of wanting to strangle someone with his bare hands and not his tentacles.

“Aw, don’t be jelly jus’ cuz ya don't get mey magic goeng. I mean jus’ look atcha bruh.” Epic gestured to Nightmare. “What’s da dealio wit’ yo’ threads, brah?” 

The utter nerve of this mongrel! “My attire is impeccable—”

“Bitch please. Ain’t even tryin’ to level up ya L ratio wi’ cheugy an’ went all muggy.”

Nightmare’s eye twitched.

“Totally gonna kiki wi’ Sugar later when we’re sharin’ da T an’ laughin’ ova ya discolored hobo basic bitch Sans lookin’ ass—”

SHINK!

Fuschia blood splattered onto the table cloth, discoloring the porcelain in sanguine blotches. “Wow, ya really dig impaling me, huh? Try an’ keep it in ya pants Hentainess.”

Infuriating, knavish, orgiastically lush myopic bastard!

“How dare you! I am a god above you miserable ants, and I will crush you like the bug you are—!”

“Ha, frfr? King of negativity?” Epic snickered derisively. “Moar liek keng of trash ya basic, overrated, goopy takoyaki beta cuc—”

SHINK!

SHINK!

SHINK!

The lights flickered, cats hissing and meowing as a few dogs barked and ran with their friends elsewhere as the shadows converged, bathing the room in darkness. From the shadows Nightmare loomed, tentacles writhing angrily behind his amorphous form as he loomed above Epic, his infuriated snarl separating his face into petals of viscera as raggedly sharp teeth shook with his roar, row after row of fangs converging into a spiral deep within the darkness of his mouth as he shrieked in rage. 

SHINK!

SHINK!

SHINK!

His undulating tentacles converged, rapidly piercing through Epic’s body in a brutal series of strikes until Nightmare paused, chest heaving whilst his form trembled with fury, and multiple tentacles protruded from Epic’s chest. From the wounds fuchsia stained his soft cable-knit sweater, soaking the material and damaging it irreparably. 

Epic coughed, blood pouring from his mouth. He reached for his napkin to wipe his mouth as he continued to hack up more and more of the viscous fluid and clear his false throat.

Still, the sight wasn’t nearly enough to appease the enraged Guardian, eyelight a deadly slit as he hissed, his forked tongue flickering between his fangs.

“I will make you suffer a slow, miserable death surrounded by the remains of the ones you love you wretched, perverse—!”

“Ooooooh, yeeeeees,” Epic arched his back, his purr more of a garbled, cluttered sound from metaphysical lungs drowning in blood. “Stab me harder octodaddy~” He rasped.

…

WHAT.

THE.

FU—

Viscerally jolting, Nightmare gaped, immediately retracting all his tentacles in one abrupt pull that made Epic’s body slam head first onto the table. Nonexistent mind bloated with static clogged his hearing, the disgruntling sound of cervical vertebrae breaking going unheard, Epic’s body stilling.

It didn’t matter that he hadn’t sensed an iota of lust from Epic in what was clearly an act to unsettle him. The mere fact that someone would be so uncouth — with his (technically) body parts inside them — and then say that — !

He felt so, so unclean.

While Nightmare gagged, dryly retching to the side of the table, body racked by terrorized shudders and a nonexistent gut determined to upheave its contents, Epic slowly rose from the table with a groan. 

His head jolted, flinging itself far to the side and then back to the center in a sharp crack as his broken neck repaired itself, blood and bones squelching amid a miniscule vortex of swirling dust. His right socket was empty, only the haunting magenta of his Eye lighting up his scarred socket and illuminating the void within his skull as his body continued to crack and convulse.

Broken ribs and pseudo flesh winded and converged in brilliant, blinding spirals of mana, abruptly reforming to its previous state of matter from the fallen dust of its body.

When his ribs cracked back into place Epic’s eyelight returned and he sighed, rolling his head and shoulders with a low groan before he jolted one last time as consciousness and bodily autonomy were regained. 

“Shit, that was a new way to die.” Epic coughed, clearing his throat of lingering dust. “What was that? Death number 20,000? 60,000?” It was rhetorical. Not like Nightmare would’ve known, or be deigned to answer anyway, teal blush betraying his conflicted though largely horrified emotions. 

“Can’t say it was original though. My old man stabbed me to death once. Though it was with bones instead of tentacles. Hmm. Anyways. Ya good there?”

Nightmare stared back at him, unseeing. Slowly rocking back and forth in an upright fetal position. “Your mind is filthy.”

“Lmao, if you think that joke was bad you should see my hentai zines.”

Nightmare was about to give in and leap across the table to strangle him with his bare hands when Epic caught him off guard yet again, swiftly diverging their conversation. 

“Oh hey, speaking of the unappreciated arts, do ya like poetry?”

Wary, Nightmare enunciated slowly, “...yes?”

“Coolio, mind if I get your unbiased third party perspective on this little ditty I made for my homies?” Epic posed dramatically, one hand over his Soul and the other resting atop his foreskull. “Gotta let ya homebois know they’re appreciated. Ahem!”

He began, cadence low and melodic as though the prose he spun were Shakespeare’s finest. But what came out of his mouth that had Nightmare tasting rainbows in his mouth was:

“Ain’t nobody betta den da GOAT, da squad dat’s on fleek.”

Nightmare had long lost the hope of deciphering the madness that fell from his questionably silver tongue and could only watch helplessly, a haunted gleam in his eye as Epic butchered vernacular with a charming grin and cheerfully set its corpse aflame.

“U got da whole Chromatic Crew hustlin’, dis fam don’t play baby we stay bussin’! Full o’ peeps dat are straight up cuties, no cap, got dem gucci an’ menty b vibes. Da Skittles Squad are da best, no jive!” 

Jumping atop his seat, Epic concluded his recital with a flourished bow, curtsying and bowing as cats and dogs meowed and barked in applause. Or they were glad he was safe after Nightmare killed him. Hard to say.

Epic caught a rose that was thrown at him with his teeth and winked in the direction it was thrown in. He blew a kiss as he waved, the skeleton that had thrown the flower blushing shyly and ducking back to his corner at having been noticed. 

“TY, TY,” Epic thanked as he sat back down, “Prayer hands and heart emojis fo’ all y’all.”

Nightmare blinked away the odd stinging in his eye. He wiped his socket dry, then gazed down at the translucent water on his claw. He was…crying??

“What in hell?”

“Yee I tend ta have dat effect.”

Nightmare lifted his stare to Epic, saying nothing.

“Oh, dat reminds me.” Epic pulled out 20G from his inventory and shoved the coins into his pocket. “Note to self: pay back KitKat later fo’ Skittlez.”

Nightmare already knew he’d regret asking, yet still, the cerebration of unknowing anything plagued him, and he slowly queried, “A what?”

“Skittles Squad! Kill la Kill coined it, so I owe him now.”

“...What.”

“Yep, patented it and everything.”

Nightmare resisted the way his false throat tickled, fearing that if he coughed, he’d see a rainbow splattered all over his claw. Disbelieving, his eye pierced the dichotomy of a grin so sweet and endearing and somehow irritatingly cocky and frivolous all in one. 

How much more of this inane babble could he withstand? Truly, whose will would ever be able to gaze into the pandemonic abyss of this clearly unwell mind and maintain its sanity?

“I also wrote a Vocaloid fan song in case my ultimate waifu, GILF Miku, ever came to life and wanted to date —”

He knew one thing for certain: he’d been violated mentally long enough.

“STOP!” Nightmare roared beseeched. “Just — stop!” He put his head in his hands, both to make sure blood wasn’t leaking from his acoustic meatus and to carry his weary skull. “I implore you, Epic...Stop.”

He’d had enough. 

Epic’s smile remained as his eyelights glittered somberly. 

He set the rose that he’d been fiddling with in his hands gently down on the table and leaned back in his chair. “Do you concede defeat?”

[zenkindoflove]

Fandom Shipping Terminology 101: ACOTAR edition

Hi! So I decided to put a little resource together for the ACOTAR fandom. Since many people join the SJM/ACOTAR fandom and have never been in fandom before, they encounter a lot of fandom terminology that they are not quite sure what it means or have seen others use it incorrectly so they get a false impression of the meaning of the word. So I put this together, including examples from the fandom, so that people can use it as a reference to learn more about what these terms mean and when they're appropriate to use. This list is focused on words related to shipping.

Tldr definitions (note: these are definitions that I wrote based on my own experiences/research on fanlore. These are always up for interpretation and meaning and nuance change over time and depend on fandom context)

Canon ship - a relationship where the characters have romantic interactions in canon

Fanon ship - a relationship where in canon the characters are platonic but the fandom has accepted as a ship with romantic undertones, canonical potential, or has become so popular within a fandom it's has surpassed the need/desire for canon

Crackship - a pairing of two characters where the idea of them together is strange or funny depending on the circumstances. Often in these ships, the characters have little or even no interactions in canon

Rare pair - agnostic to fanon or canon status. A rare pair simply means the fandom does not make a lot of fan content for it.

End-game - This is a canon ship that is together by the end of a series.

Slash ship - Fanon ships that feature queer relationships. M/M usually takes on the term slash and F/F has the term femslash.

OTP - Stands for One True Pair. This is a ship that a shipper considers to be the most important one that they love in a fandom.

NOTP - anti-OTP, or a ship that a shipper detests/is squicked out by

Multishipping - the act of shipping a character with multiple other characters.

For more context and thorough examples read more under the cut 

First, what the heck is a ship?

The origins of shipping and becoming obsessed with fictional relationships predate our modern understanding of fandom. Modern fandom roots can be traced as early as Star Trek: The Original Series. But the terminology of calling a couple you like a ship or the act of obsessing over fictional (and sometimes non fictional) couples "shipping" has its origins in the X-Files fandom. While ACOTAR is a romance, many fandoms do not have romance as a central element of its plot, and yet, shippers find a way. That's exactly what happened for the fans of Mulder/Scully. Those who wanted them to be in a romantic relationship were called "relationshippers" which then got shortened to "shippers". The verb "to ship" would appear later from this origin.

The way to think about "what is a ship" though is really based on do people think up romantic scenarios with these two characters? If yes, then you have a ship. And in ACOTAR, oh baby, are there MANY, MANY SHIPS.

Canon vs. Fanon ships

Where does a canon ship end and a fanon one begin? Now that, my friends, is not as clear cut as you might think.

I think this discussion is very important for the ACOTAR fandom because of the state of the ship war currently. Often, there is back and forth about which ship is canon or fanon (and *eye twitch* people throwing around crackship as a derogatory term to de-legitimize a ship which makes me wanna punch shit).

I'm gonna burst everyone's bubbles and say, I personally think Elriel, Elucien, and Gwynriel are all CANON ships.

Why? Well, that's the part that is up for interpretations my friends. What is deemed canonical romantic interactions? That is where a lot of lines can become blurry and if you have ever shipped a fanon ship before - you KNOW what I mean by that. Is it a charged glance? A caress of a hand that lingered too long? Is it a shared kiss? Or do the characters have to explicitly declare "I'm yours and you're mine"?

I've shipped a lot of kinds of ships. Canon. Fanon. Canon that had its end-game blown up. You name it, I've shipped it. And to me, a canon ship is anytime the writer of the canon is putting characters in a romantic situation, regardless if they end up together or not by the end of the series. If they wanted you to feel butterflies and think "could they?", and you felt butterflies, well my friends, you're responding to canon romance. And we've seen evidence of all three ships having those moments.

But, what does that mean for fanon ships? I have shipped a fanon couple where I got butterflies from their canonical scenes together. I've read into their moments and thought "wow, that was romantically charged". I think this is where the lines of canon and fanon are blurred. Because what this comes down to is, did the author intend this? Or am I seeing more into an interaction because I like it? Most fanon ships do hinge a lot of their interest in said ship because of what happens in canon. But, often times, the authors of said content are not necessarily wanting you to take away from their writing that these two characters are interested in each other romantically. You just can't help it. You see it. You see the potential, and you want it to go there so you see more of it the more you look.

Sometimes fanon ships are very clear that the canon is not even hinting at these two characters together romantically. And that is perfectly fine. To me, a fanon ship is a ship that has become so ingrained in the fandom community that the fandom thinks of these two together romantically. That it doesn't really matter anymore what the canon says or doesn't. The fandom has created this relationship and it lives and breathes within what the fandom builds for it. Azris is a perfect example of a fanon ship in ACOTAR. The canon interactions between Azriel and Eris are sparse and platonic in nature, yet the fandom itself has created a whole fanon around them with a large enough community that as soon as you enter the ACOTAR fandom, you immediately know this ship exists.

Rare pairs and Crackships

These two terms are often used interchangeably as if they are synonyms. Now, a rare pair can be a crackship but not all rare ships are crackships and vice versa.

Generally, a rare pair is devoid of canon or fanon connotations. A rare pair is a ship that receives little attention from fans and has few associated fanworks. So, a rare pair could be a fanon couple that few people think about romantically. For example, Emerie and Gwyn have a lot of interactions in canon. I would not think shipping them together to be a crackship because I mean, they're friends, they like each other, they read smut together. There are a lot of scenarios one could imagine them falling in love. But they have a whopping 12 fanfics under their tag in AO3. Therefore, they are a rare pair but not necessarily a crackship.

A rare pair can also be a canon ship. For example, Thesan and his unnamed lover are canon. However, when you look up their relationship tag on AO3, there are 23 works and most do not appear to be focused on them.

I also have seen people use rare pair for very popular ships (like Azris) when they mean fanon. Again, rare pair is really an indication of "how much fan content can you find for this" not necessarily are they canon.

Crackships really were birthed from the intention of putting two characters together "4 da lulz" to bring back early 2000s internet lingo. Crack shipping is usually a pairing that the idea of them together is a little absurd but also fun. Beron/Tamlin is a quintessential crackship example, especially why it came to be (but we will avoid getting into all the origins of that). There is no real reason to think Beron or Tamlin would ever have a romantic interaction and thinking about it makes you laugh. Crackships can sometimes turn into fanon ships. This is another example where the lines do get blurry. But really, crackshipping is about intention and the use of absurdism within fan creation.

I also want to say, often what I see in the Elucien v. Elriel and Elriel v. Gwynriel ships wars is the use of crackship in a derogatory way, and thinking that if one of these ships does not become end-game, therefore, it proves the other was a crackship. Simply put - no. That's not how it works.

End-game

Related to the above point, I think often where the ACOTAR ship wars really derail themselves, is conflating fanon/canon/endgame with each other. I don't see people often using the term end-game, when really, it would help so much with the judgmental and strange ship policing that this fandom loves to do. Specifically, this fandom has a hard time talking about the value within shipping fanon, or shipping the blurriness between fanon and canon for any characters that do not have end-game potential. ACOTAR is not a complete series. Therefore, in a strict definition, no couples are end-game. However, given the genre, there are several couples who are clearly going to be end-game. And really, what I think the ship war community needs in their discourse, is to start using the term end-game when they want to discuss the outcome of Elucien, Elriel, or Gwynriel having a canonical Happily Ever After. The reason being is that you can use end-game, and not insult another ship. End-game is simply a fact. There is no hierarchy involved in what ship is best or not. Because ships can be beloved whether they're canon or fanon or canon who did not end up together. And they all can have very valid reasons why people ship them despite not achieving end-game.

I also urge the ACOTAR fandom to realize that end-game is not the end of YOUR experience of your ship. Your ship lives on despite what the canon may or may not give you. Even if you ship a canon ship that does not achieve end-game, you can create those fanon end-games for yourself. Many popular ships end up being popular because of the effect of that ship not achieving end-game. And while I am using the prime-ship war as examples within this post, I've seen other microshipwars popping up within the fandom as well. So, I'm not trying to pick on this specific set of conflicts, it's just the one I see most prominently.

OTP vs NOTP

I think the ACOTAR fandom could also really benefit from adopting this terminology.

The point of declaring OTPs and NOTPs is a way for you to signal to others in your fandom, "This is how much I care about this ship. Whether I love it it or hate it. Tread carefully". These terms are not meant to say one ship is better than the other from a moral standpoint. Instead, it's to indicate to others that you have a strong preference. You're going to love your OTPs regardless of what arguments others throw at you to convince you to not love them. You will probably be very annoyed by your NOTPs regardless of what others try to do to convince you that they're actually cute/sexy/hot/perfect for each other. And what the ACOTAR fandom could benefit from, from readopting OTP/NOTP language, is having a common understanding where different shipping communities boundaries are and how they can better utilize those boundaries to prevent constant fighting. Now, ship wars are inevitable because of how people see their OTPs and NOTPs, but general rule of thumb is - don't engage with your NOTP's content for your own mental sanity.

Multishipping

Multishipping can be used in many ways. Some people use it to say, hey I'm in this fandom, and I ship a lot of couples. But the origins of multishipping as a term, comes from ship war discourse in other fandoms. Multishippers generally are people who ship one character with multiple other characters. For example, if you ship Elain/Lucien, Elain/Azriel, Elain/Gwyn, Elain/Tamlin, etc etc etc, you are a multishipper. I generally would not consider someone a multishipper if all of their ships do not cross streams. It just sort of means that you ship a lot of couples. Which tends to be normal for romance series with a lot of couples. Maybe not a single of those couples is your true OTP, and that's what you mean by saying you're a multishipper. And that's okay. I think though that multishipping generally in other fan spaces is a marker of you telling others that you don't draw harsh lines with who you see characters with. I often see multishippers not declaring NOTPs. It's kind of a state of how you go about shipping often. I, for one, identify as an OTP shipper. I've never really multishipped. But I also have a very strict standard of what I call my "ships". Anyways, this is to say, this term has a lot of uses. And sometimes it can be confusing which of these uses a person means when they say it.

Slash shipping 

I've seen over the years that slash as a terminology has fallen out of favor. In the past, slash shipping was the pinnacle of shipping in fandoms. The term slash comes from the first modern fanon ship, Kirk/Spock, where the / between their names, which we now all know and use to indicate a romantic pairing (note: & is used to indicate a platonic interaction between characters), exists because the Kirk/Spock shipping community really were the originators of shipping communities creating fan content and sharing it in with each other in a massive way. In general slash (and femslash) is an important modifier of shipping because it explicitly tells you that this is a queer ship which often were not mainstream and considered canon until more recently. With the rise of canonical queer ships, I think the subversiveness of shipping queer couples has lost it's edge, therefore slash is not needed as much anymore to directly state the nature of your ship.

I wanted to keep this in the post though, because I think it's incredibly important history for ALL ACOTAR fans to understand. Shipping queer couples, and especially shipping FANON queer couples, has always been the backbone of fandom. Kirk/Spock walked so Destiel could fly. These are all queer ships that have strong fanon roots (and that fanon has had impacts on their canon) and have shaped fandom and your concept of shipping and romance tropes in inextricable ways. You don't have / without Kirk/Spock. You don't have Omegaverse, without gay shipping within the Supernatural fandom. And I wanted to make this point because this fandom has a strong het (heterosexual) ship bias. Which is okay. It's a romance series with a lot of heterosexual canon couples. But, I think because of that, many people are not entering this fandom with an understanding that people shipping queer fanon couples have been the ones who were the originators of many fandom terms that we have come to know and use today.

Conclusion:

I hope you all found this informative and that you can take away something from this post that can help you have better interactions and ability to communicate with others in this fandom. Again, I want to stress, that this is heavily influenced by my own 25 years of experience being in fandoms. And I haven't seen it all. Others will have different interpretations of these terms and experiences using these terms. So, feel free to add on anything that you think would be helpful to those in the ACOTAR community to better understand how to "ship and let ship". I do think that ship war are inevitable and not necessarily a bad thing. But using the right terms can help you engage in a more respectful way within ship war discourse.

[bookwyrmonastring]

Just realized I can talk about my AUs on here so here is the most deranged swap au known to man

J swaps with Tessa

And Cyn swaps with the Absolute Solver

The solver as a drone isn't here but I'm gonna brief yall on a couple more characters before revealing Cyn's deal to build suspense.

When Tessa rose again as a zombie drone, she was badly hurt, and would have died again in days had Jade Elliot not saved her. She became obsessed with her rebirth and sought to understand the secrets of life and death, especially how they affected drones (she's so victor Frankenstein coded I love her).

This journey took her to a scrapyard where she met a runway drone who had modified herself with the trash there: Uzi (she was swapped with Alice in an early version of the au, so some remnants of that linger). Uzi has digitigrade legs, toe beans, purely cosmetic bug antenna, and IR and night vision. She's also kinda rusty. (Also uzi in this au takes some inspiration from @solroskajan's Rebel Or Runaway au go check her stuff out it's awesome.) The two engineers quickly become friends, and eventually Tessa brings N and V to meet Uzi. V falls in love at first sight, and immediately panics bc she doesn't want to be disloyal to N, who she hasn't even confessed to yet. Eventual Envuzi bc its my otp/ot3. Anyway back to crimes against nature.

Tessa is just as into the occult as in canon, so she's trying to summon demons and shit (with Uzi's help of course). Eventually she succeeds (and nearly disintegrates into a pile of rust in the process) and gives an entity known as The Ultimate Parasite a physical form.

The Parasite of the Ultimate Fertilizer, The Rot, The Inevitable Dawn: Cyn (she/it pronouns as is my general headcanon for her)(yes im projecting) is an eldritch goddess of death, time, and rebirth. She is based around the idea that destruction is just transformation and thus, is creation. Predation, parasitism, rot; smashing a statue with a hammer creates a pile of dust as surely as sculpting creates a statue. It has a fungal and parasitic wasp motif, and is, well, about the way you'd expect an eldritch goddess of time to act. She's distant, she's seen thousands of civilizations rise and fall and it Knows that everything is temporary, knows it surer than it knows anything else. Needless to say, having a conversation with it usually results in existential dread. If anyone draws her I would die (in a good way). All that's set for her appearance it's that it is Mushroom and has wasp mandibles.

Oh also I forgot to mention that Jade still does her buzzword gimmick from canon but sarcastically. Goodness she's so sarcastic.

Asks welcome, and to finish off here's all my AUs listed from least to most self-explanatory: Cyn-tinal, Sibling Swap, Pokemon!AU, N kills Yeva

[dreamwreaver]

godamnit those fans are also getting pissy about a fanart of Verosika x Charlie on Twitter. Goes to show *any* ship of Charlie that isn't Chaggie is apparently bad and not canon so it shouldn't be made according to these people🙄

they're only proving your point tbh cuz normies are sucking all the fun out of shipping

If you're talking about the one deerly depart did then I just have to laugh. Because 1. It's fabulous art and Gin always does fabulous art. And 2. I mean... have you SEEN some of gin's other stuff? That charosika piece is one of the tamer ones. Also, someone paid for it?

I mean this also happened to another artist just a few months ago. This one was I guess a known ra shipper, or at least known for their ra art rather. They've since come out as a multishipper on bsky and are very nice so I always try to give them a like and a boost where I can. Anyways, someone commissioned them for a charlastor piece and it, was, GORGEOUS! It was a nsfw piece but my god there's no denying the sheer talent. Unfortunately, two assholes felt the need to bully them on bsky about it and the piece was taken down. Thankfully the shipping communities on bsky are actually far more civil because I had actual ra shippers in that person's replies saying the same thing we say, "Block the tags and move on this is pathetic"

It was honestly very refreshing. Those shippers I respect, even if because of the ones I don't their ship gives me visceral squick. Not their fault that toxic people are into the same thing. But back to the Charosika piece, like... it's still gay; they're two hot ladies, what's the big fucking deal? It's not gay enough for them now? Or is it just that they're made that yet again; someone saw the chemistry between two characters who have NEVER interacted instead of the chemisuck that their oh so precious canon ship is? And again, I feel like the anger I tend to let out in the asks gives the impression that I hate chaggie. I don't. I really, truly don't. I hate CANON chaggie, I hate the way that the main fucking couple is so watered down you could air hazbin in Russia essentially all unedited. You couldn't do that with the owl house or Steven universe, and Hazbin is a fucking adult animated cartoon! I hate the fact that chaggie content in the fandom is honestly hard to find because I've run the numbers and more than half the fics tagged chaggie are actually stories about other ships that have Chaggie tagged even though it's just a background pairing at best. I hate that a lot of the people who might like Chaggie well enough on its own but have another otp use it to shit on others even though they're pushing a canon sapphic ship yo the side because "Ooh toxic yaoi!" And infantilize one half of a grown ass adult couple! I hate that Viv is now trying so hard to backpedal on how bad the show fucked them up in the first season by going overkill with the chaggie pda when what's really needed is to either fix the writing in their dynamic or let the fucking relationship end because from a solely writing perspective it feels so, so FORCED. Like Charlie cent let go because it's a comfortable if not perfect relationship and vaggie can't let go because this is the literal person who saved her fucking life and being with her means everything even though doing so strips vaggie of literally all character agency and personality!

Deep breaths, side tangent over. But no, my assessment that normies who know nothing about fan culture and don't care to learn because it's trendy are the reason for the rise of fandom puritainism and the obsession with the "it's canon" part of it. And fucking hell I hope they get over it soon.

[pinelohearts]

L for the ask game :]

FAVORITE THING ABOUT THEM

these freaking hand trembles. yes L is a lying selfish bastard but he really does care about the people he is working with and its shit like this that shows.

LEAST FAVORITE THING ABOUT THEM

these frames in the manga where Obata hadn’t figured out the final L design so we can see eyebrows on him. i don’t like it.

FAVORITE LINE

“college is fun if you don’t die” is a hilarious line that no one talks enough about. what is wrong with him.

BROTP

i am always a big fan of L and Watari’s dynamic because there’s so many facets of it. on the one hand Watari is literally the only parental figure L had for most of his life but on the other hand this man is literally running a child factory to make copies of L. what the fuck.

OTP

i mean it’s lawlight. obviously. i could rant about it but i’ll save that energy for the rest of this.

NOTP

i just really don’t understand the hype of l and matsuda im sorry. i don’t L thinks he’s as stupid as canon wants you to think but i also do not believe L likes him that much.

RANDOM HEADCANON

L does not give a shit about labels. yeah he’s got something queer going on but he’s too busy detective-ing it up.

UNPOPULAR OPINION

i don’t know if this is unpopular or not but the human washing machine thing is stupid. like, yeah, it’s funny that it’s canon but i really don’t understand the logistics of it genuinely. first of all, that’s not even something that makes sense to exist in the first place and i do not believe L would tolerate getting shook up like a bag of marbles.

SONG I ASSOCIATE WITH THEM

nothing off the top of my head, sorry.

FAVORITE PICTURE

oh i love this frame. he’s such a lying bastard, i love him.

[hellsballz]

Jay and Kai please? For the character dissection thingymabob?

HELL YEAH! tysm for the ask<3 some dr s3 spoilers will be mentioned in jays text! JAY How I feel about this character: I LOVE HIM LOTS! I always say i dont have a favourite ninja and its because i think all of them are awesome and they all balance each other out. i love jays personality in early seasons especially. he is pretty hyper which makes sense for a lighting ninja and he is a literal defenition of unmedicated adhd (me!). i love this guy hes so fun. but i also love the new direction dr is taking him in. making him more serious and making him a depressed dude and is also unmedicated and has amnesia is so interesting and i LOVE IT SO MUCH! i cant wait for s3 to see more of rogue.

All the people I ship romantically with this character: NYA... NYA... NYA!!!!! jaya is my favourite jay ship i think, but mostly because of dragons rising. they make my heart ache and i want to squeeze doc wyatt for breaking my heart like that. i also really like plasma:) im a bit of a multishipper so in my mind they can co-exist (not in the same universe plane ofc). early season plasma is my fav though! esp pilots and seasons 1-2. i dont think i ship him with anyone else though? i might be forgetting someone bc bad memory but oh well, might edit this later to add other ppl

My non-romantic OTP for this character: COLE. oh my god they are my everything. jay and cole are best friends always and forever in my heart, i know its literally canon but its so unutulized it makes me so sad. i hope we can see more of their friendship shine through in dr! cole missing jay, his best friend... rogue having some faint memories of haging out with a black-hair, bushy browed boy when he was younger... UGHHH

My unpopular opinion about this character: okay this may be more of a prime empire opinion but i dont like prime empire as a jay season. at all. i went in to watch it for the first time expecting something good and fun but it did not do him justice. like boy why are you talking to a mecha dragon on top of a rooftop about how your parents left you bitch the poeple that RAISED YOU are literally well and alive you can call them right now😭🙏

One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon: i wish we got to see more of ed and edna in later seasons. i want to see more of their relationship! family dynamic! they stopped appearing after day of the departed which breaks my heart. why didnt they say anything to jay during/after nyas funeral?! come on! KAI How I feel about this character: I ALSO LOVE HIM! like with jay i especially like early season kai but this time it may be my nostalgia shining through as he was my favourite ninja as a kid (even though like i said i now dont have a fav ninja). him being a hotheaded guy that does not give a single shit about all those other losers and that weird old man and just wants to save his sister is so fun, it poses such a cool dynamic between him and other ninja. but i of course love later kai too. him caring for lloyd, being a little mean to jay... oh i love him lots!

All the people I ship romantically with this character: plasma as stated b4... esp early season but i already said that. i dont really have many ships for him because i feel like even tough there are many girls that are head over heels for him he cannot flirt to save his life. i mean... theres def the kailor situationship. its so funny to me i love it. i also like destiny but its more of a rivarly/enemies to making out gay-ly then romantical. him and morro would jump to eachothers throats and tear eachother down like two dogs but in a gay way if you know what i mean <3

My non-romantic OTP for this character: EUGH RBG SIBLINGS DO I NEED TO SAY MORE

My unpopular opinion about this character: okay also more of a season opinion like with jays prime empire but oh well - i think hands of time has too much kai in it 😭SORRYYY SORRYYYY i once saw someone say that in hands of time kai is doing everything and nya is just there and i wholeheartedly agree with that One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon: let him worry about shit more PLEASE

[dolliedyhard]

Hello and Welcome! I’m Lucy, better known as the creator of Dollie Dyhard ٩(๑❛ᴗ���๑)۶ I’m a MEGA creepypasta fan like… SUPER-ULTRA-MEGA. As you can guess my blog will be all about Creepypasta! Hooray🎉☆*:.｡. o(≧▽≦)o .｡.:*☆ From fanart to OC’s to creepy stories to comics, I’ll make it ALL! In fact I have my own creepypasta oc! Her name is Dollie Lilium, alias Dollie Dyhard (hence my username). She’s the blonde girlie in the pic above and my pfp :3

Stuff about meh!

♥︎black girl🇺🇸🇿🇦 — bday is June 5th♥︎

♥︎Requests: NEVER — Art Trades: OPEN — Commissions: N/A♥︎

Yes I am a Jeff the Killer fangirl and I am not ashamed to admit! HES MY FAVORITE SO DON’T EVEN ASK, I WANT THAT TO BE OBVIOUS!!!! XD

Nina, Jane and Slenderman are also my favorite creepypasta’s too♡

I used to scared of Slenderman and Jeff the killer when I was a little girl. Back then I thought they were real, now I wish they were ｡ﾟ(ﾟ´Д｀ﾟ)ﾟ｡

I’m a songwriter & I want 2 sing as beautifully as Amy Lee one day!

I have a humongous stamp & blinkie collection…ITS NOT AN ADDICTION.

My favorite movies are The Craft (1996), Interview with the Vampire (1994), and The Prince of Egypt.

My OC’s!

You can find all information about Dollie and my other OC’s here in this post: General Post for my OC’s

Creepypasta AU’s:

The link for my creepypasta AU’s are here. That’s also important to read if you wanna know more about Dollie and stuff. It’s only 2k words so it won’t take long to read.

Oh! And also feel free to ask questions about my characters, love answering them! And I’d appreciate suggestions on OC designs, story, etc as well as constructive criticism. I’m always trying to improve my work and I value other opinions :)

”All can do!” List

this is a list of things I’m good with u doing!

Making fanart for me (OF COURSE DUHHH PLZZZZZZZZ)

Shipping ur OC’s with mine

Writing fanfic about my OC’s

Including my OC’s in ur OC lore (but u BUTTER give meh credit for mah oc >:c)

Sending me dm’s to be friends

“DONT YOU DARE” List

This is a list of things ILL KILL U FOR IF U DO IT.

Making “your own version” of any of my OC’s

Stealing my art

Tracing my art

Reposting my art

Taking too much inspiration from me

Copying me

And buggin me for free shit (That’s a friends & moots only privilege HAHAHA.)

Do not interact list

My Tags!

Go to the search bar or click on these links to view!

#DollieDyhard — All my posts about Dollie are in here.

#Fun Dollie Facts! — The mini series I made about Dollie to share fun facts about her.

#Dollie Dyhard Gallery — A display of all my art!

#Lucy’s Rambles — Random rants & opinions.

#Lucy’s Asks — Asks I receive or give.

#Lucy’s Sketches — Sketches I’ve made with pen and paper.

#Lucy’s Headcanons — My headcanons for the creepypastas.

#Dollie x Jeff — My OTP featuring Dollie and Jeff the Killer. Their official ship name is “Jellie” <3.

#The Dollhouse — Content of my teen CRP AU.

#Paracosm of the Vagabonds — Content of my adult CRP AU.

Socials!

Alt account: @xlucythekillerx

♥︎DeviantArt♥︎

♥︎Fanfiction.net♥︎

♥︎YouTube♥︎

♥︎Roblox♥︎

♬♩♪♩ MY ♩♪♩♬

MUSIC TASTE

Every creepypasta fan comes with an obsession with punk-rock and alternative music, it’s a fact! Aaaaand that fact applies to me too ofc _(┐「ε:)_ Favorite bands & musicians? Here’s a list! (In no particular order :v)

Pierce the Veil, Panic! At the Disco, My Chemical Romance, Get Scared, Set it Off, Ghost Town, Flyleaf, Three Days Grace, Avril Lavigne, Evanescence, Black Veil Brides, Linkin Park, Type O Negative, HIM, & Sliverstein.

More about the music I like here!

OUTRO!

Thank you SOO MUCH for reading! ((o(^∇^)o)) a lot of people don’t read intros >_> so I’m glad you did :) (Comment with a 💖 emoji if u made it dis far ^_^) I hope you stick along for the ride because it’ll definitely get wild! XD

If you want to see more art from me check out my gallery on DeviantArt!

Anyways, that’s pretty much everything I got 2 say :D Stay Frosty❄️ BAIIIIIIIIII

[sieglinde-freud]

Charlotte for the ask game

THANK YOU ANON I LOVE MY WIFE

how i feel about this character (immediately starts with me ranting)

II LOVORE RHERRRRRRR 🥹🥹🥹 she is literally my second favorite fire emblem character ever. right behind inigo, and in front of literally every other character i have ever seen mildly crazy about. i love her so much!!! and, i know maybe its like weird about a character whos clearly more on the comedic relief side, but she was really important for me growing up!! i played fates for the first time when i was like, 12? and to me she was like. well i had big dumb stupid crush on her, but also it was like. i dont know. she was just really relatable to me which is terrible sounds terrible as i admit i was 12 years old but like. desperately wanting money you dont have to give your parents who worked so hard to make you happy the life they never got to have is really relatable to me!!! and you can say putting on a false persona to get things from men is “bad” or “deceitful” or “degrading” and you know what? yeah it probably is. but sometimes life puts you in a bad position and if the cards you got are looking cute and playing dumb? well! fuck! play them!! when youre born into a system that works to put you down, you dont have to be honorable to get what you want out of it. i loved seeing her do her dumb ass act and get rewarded. it was really cathartic for me! but also her real self being welcomed by the nohrians who did get to know her was also really healing because. like. that was relatable too. IDK everything about her is j. GOD. SHES J LIKE ME FR. me if i had like 200% more confidence for sure. unfortunately i cannot break a tree with my fists…

all the people i ship romantically with this character

off the top of my head: benny, nyx, rinkah, leo, camilla, beruka, selena, odin, azura, kaze, saizo. theres probably more im just not thinking

my non-romantic otp for this character

i really love her and nyx’s relationship, i do. is it because they are my favorite fates women? perhaps. but i think their support is really cute and they both teach eachother a little bit about being comfortable in your own skin and just. you know. being women in shit situations trying to play the shit cards you were dealt. fuck!!!

my unpopular opinion for this character

i think she’s well written beyond more than a joke and i like her outfit! i mean, yeah, i wouldnt mind if there was MORE, but as it stands, eh. shes a berserker. who fucking cares.

one thing i wish would happen in canon

i really wish she had a support conversation with ryoma which is something i had mentioned before but its not really because i ship them or anything. i honestly dont know if i think thats a good match but i think that ryoma has a very interesting interaction with silas in birthright where silas explains the famine of nohr and how widespread poverty is and ryoma says “oh fuck i didnt know” LIKE WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU DONT KNOW. YOU DIDNT THINK TO ASK ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT WHY NOHR WANTS YOUR FOOD SO BAD?!?! anyways so i think charlotte, having actually lived through that unlike silas who is a noble, would have a lot of. choice words. for ryoma in regards to his ignorance and status and i really just want her to punch him in the face and him to learn a little.

my otp

benny!!! i love benny/charlotte so much which i explained in my benny ask but. they r soulmates. TO ME!!! i just think benny gets charlotte on a level that no one else in the army really can. YES i know he has no money. but. they’ll find a way im sure. also charlotte’s version of ignatius’s mom support is the BEST version fight me

my ot3

charlotte/selena/oboro… what if we were all girls and we went shopping and then we tested eachothers lip gloss together………….. liikeeee what if

[thesunwillshineonusagain757]

As the @thelovelybookworm doing this and I loved the concept so I’m doing this for this blog. It want easy narrowing things down but here it is.

1. Rhaegar Targaryen and Lyanna Stark ( A song of ice and Fire, George R.R. Martin )

If you follow me you saw this one coming from hey are my ultimate OTP have always been and probably will always be. Finding love in hopeless places is one things I’m very inclined to.

2. Viola and Duke Orsino ( Twelfth Night, Or What You Will, William Shakespeare )

I’m not a massive Shakespeare buff but these to ring my bell a lot. It’s the trans allegory, its the melancholic deeply bisexual man, and a deeply non binary person that make a very good duo! I think you can already see a pattern here.

3. Aragon and Éowyn ( Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien )

Here me out I know it’s fanon, and I know most purists of Tolkien will think it heretic but I love these two and their dynamic ! And yes I think they should’ve end up together. Aragon sees Éowyn and doesn’t think she should be lady like to be worthy of his respect! And the fact that Aragorn is the most badass man in the Middle-earth also helps.

4. Zuko x Katara ( Avatar : The last Air Bender )

The OG ship of ships, my OG OTP, they are still my shit and yes I’m still bitter about it. It’s the Fire and Water, opposites attract that always made me love their dynamic oh my so much. They are what I want to have in life! His redemption arc to me was Ken got he best parts of the show and I’m sad that new generations won’t know what is was like with them !

[gingersnaptaff]

I hope your well Sarah anyhow the character ask rhiannon ( fuck pwyll)

I am thank u and I hope u are too!!!

Also RHIANNON? LET'S FUCKING GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

favorite thing about them

Everything!!!! She's honestly amazing and such a well-rounded character it's INSANE. Idk what Anonymous was on when they wrote her but whatever it was I want some. She's forthright, isn't afraid to fuck over Gwawl so she can marry Pwyll, loving (seriously, she goes insane and chews out Manawydan when she sees Pryderi hasn't returned from hunting during branch 3 and goes in search of him), and benevolent. She is also a goddess!!! And she loves horses. And she's also incredibly sympathetic. Plus she loves her son to the point of actively going to an ominous-looking fort and whacking her hands on a dubious-looking bowl to try and get him off it. She's my favourite character after Manawydan within the four branches and I think she's very empowering in an odd way.

least favorite thing about them

Nothing. She's great.

favorite line

WELL 'BE AS SILENT FOR AS LONG AS YOU LIKE NEVER HAS A MAN MORE STUPID THAN YOU HAVE BEEN' WE MEET AGAIN. I adore that line. It's so fuckin brutal. I bet Pwyll's heart stopped and then some. I'd fuckin turn to dust if somebody said that to me.

brOTP

I think she'd be besties with Arawn. They'd get together once a month and have coffee and discuss whatever daft bastard shit Pwyll has been up to. After he passes away they probably yap about Pryderi although I do think that that takes on the tone of two mam's gossiping about their kids. (Well, one child. Arawn has adopted him.) Also, Teyrnon for similar reasons although he HAS adopted Pryderi. And I think Aranrhod too!!!! I think they're both incredibly formidable women and they'd have an amazing time eviscerating the shit out of the men in their lives.

OTP

RHIANNON AND MANAWYDAN BABYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY. I love them so much. The PEAK couple. Ohhh, Branch 3 u sustain me so well.

nOTP

I have come around to the fact that I dislike Pwyll. I am content with this. Like bro, u made ur wife become a 'horse' but making her wear a saddle and forcing her to ferry people to ur castle after she informed them 'Oh, I cannibalised my son.' And this IS AFTER THREE YEARS OF THEM NOT HAVING KIDS AND HIS ADVISORS TRYING TO BE LIKE DIVORCE HER. THERE'S A REASON UR WIFE CALLED U FUCKIN STUPID TO UR FACE, PWYLL.

random headcanon

Her favourite food is trout which Manawydan cooks for her. After they were married he taught her how to fish and that's her stress relief.

unpopular opinion

I don't think I have one.

song i associate with them (maybe) (depends on the character)

I have two: 'Rhiannon' by Fleetwood Mac. After all, it's based on her/a book Stevie Nicks read about her, and also Helplessness Blues by Fleet Foxes because it oddly fits her story.

favorite picture of them

ITS MY FUCKIN WIFE. (THANK U, ALAN LEE. I have this copy of The Mabinogion and the illustrations are all gorgeous but this one???? THIS ONE???? HEY, PWYLL, I FUCKIN GET IT, BUDDY.)